Claudia Tenney

Claudia Tenney (4 February 1961-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-NY 22) from 3 January 2017, succeeding Richard L. Hanna.

Biography
Claudia Tenney was born in New Hartford, New York in 1961, and she worked at the Consulate General of Yugoslavia and serrved as intermediary between ABC Sports and the Yugoslavian government leading up to the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. She came to become a co-owner of Mid-York Press, as the owner of a private law practice in Clinton, and co-hosting a radio and television program in Oneida and Herkimer Counties. She served in the New York State Assembly from 2011 to 2017, when she was elected to the US House of Representatives. She was a Tea Party favorite, supporting an NRA-backed bill to lift the ban on gun silencers, claimed that most mass shooters were Democratic Party members, and claimed that US Congress members who did not applaud at President Donald Trump's State of the Union address were un-American.